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JOHN G. FARLEY, capitalist, of Verbena, was born near Hayneville, Ala., January 25, 1835, and was educated at the schools of Lowndes county. Leaving school at the age of sixteen he worked two and a half years at blacksmithing at Hayneville, Ala., and then entered the office of the Watchman in Hayneville, remaining six months, and then went to Benton, Ala., where he and I. A. Pruitt edited the Young American for a year; he then sold his interest and commenced clerking for Greenwood & Co., at Benton, Ala., and remained six years, and then in the spring of 1862 entered the Confederate service, enlisting in company A, Forty-fourth in- fantry, and served as a private six months, and was detailed as secretary to Gen. E. M. Law, and acted as such until the spring of 1864, and acted in the same capacity to Law's successor, Gen. W. F. Perry, until the close of the war. He then went to merchandizing at Benton, Ala., and carried on business until January, 1883, when he retired, but remained at Benton until March, 1885, and then moved to Verbena, Ala., and has since 1885 traded in real estate in Birmingham and Montgomery. Mr. Farley was married, first, in June, 1861, to Jodie M. Goff, by whom he had five chil- dren, all now deceased. He married for his second wife, October, 1877, Annie C. Dulany, by whom he had six children, of whom three survive, as follows: Viola C., John G. and Annie D. Mr. Farley is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
ROBERT H. KNOX, the famous lawyer of Clinton, Chilton county, was born in Montgomery, Ala., July 23, 1845, and was educated in the private schools of that city, taught by William H. Wilkinson and Prof. R. H. Ford. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, he entered the Central bank of Alabama in Montgomery as clerk, and remained there a year, and then entered the Confederate service, enlisting in the Washington artillery of New Orleans, and served as a private until November, 1864, when he was promoted to be a cadet in the regular Confederate army, and served as such until the war closed. He was in many battles and was wounded slightly once. After the war he returned to his home in Montgomery, Ala., and commenced to study law, and in 1870, was admitted to the bar; he practiced in Montgomery, until 1881, and then moved to Clanton, . Ala., where he has since resided and practiced with flattering success. He was elected alderman of Montgomery in 1870, and in 1871 was elected to the legislature from.Montgomery county ; in 1872 he was elected solicitor of Montgomery county and served as such four years; in 1875 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1876 was elected to the state senate from Montgomery. In 1877 he was
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appointed United States consul to Hamilton, Ontario by President Hayes, and held that office one year, when he returned to Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Knox was a delegate to the republican convention held in Cincinnati in 1876, which nominated Hayes.
K. WELLS, a prosperous farmer of Verbena, Ala., was born January 27, 1828, in that part of Bibb county now known as Chilton county, and was educated in the common schools of Shelby county, Ala. He has led a very active life and has had a large share in the public affairs of his county, having served as justice of the peace, postmaster, commissioner of roads and revenues, of Chilton county, and as member of the state legislature. March 18, 1862, he enlisted in company K, Fifty-fourth Alabama volunteers, served until May 8, 1865, and was then mustered out with the rank of second lieutenant-his term of service lasting three years and two months. After returning from this faithful service he engaged in farming and merchandising and has prospered well in his undertakings. His marriage took place July 15, 1847, to Miss Sarah A. Price, and the children born to this union are named James D., William L., John T., Andrew; and Marian, wife of J. T. Mullens; Jane, married to John I. Cook, and Alice, wife of William I. Mullens.
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WYATT HEFLIN BLAKE, B. S., M. D., physician of Lineville, Ala., is a son of John and Marietta (Heflin) Blake. The Blake family came ori- ginally from Hall county, Ga. Thomas Blake, the father of John Blake, left Hall county and removed with his family to Randolph county, Ala., about 1833. He was the first representative in the legislature of Alabama from Randolph county. He reared his family in that county, and was a planter and stock raiser by occupation. John Blake came to maturity in Randolph county, and married in 1852. He lived at what is known as Blake's Ferry. He was a merchant and planter, a man of thrift and energy, and accumulated considerable property. He was not a public man. His family consisted of six children, viz. : Wyatt Heflin; Young, of Roanoke, Ala .; Henry W. of Anniston, Ala .; Stell, of Wedowee, Ala .; Marietta, wife of James B. Steed of Lineville, Ala .; Rogers M., a minor. The mother of this family died in 1876, and the father in 1885. Wyatt Heflin Blake was born June 21, 1856, at Blake's Ferry. The old home- stead was originally the site of an Indian village, on a reservation owned by a Creek Indian. The doctor has the original Indian deed in his pos- session at the present time. Dr. Blake was educated at Lineville in early life. In 1874 he went to Newnan, Ga., and there attended an academy one year. In 1875, he went to the A. & M. college at Auburn, Ala., and in 1879 graduated from that institution with the second honors of a class consisting of nineteen young men. He was captain of company A, corps of cadets. While at college he gave considerable attention to oratory,,
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and has since leaving school delivered a number of addresses which have been highly spoken of. He delivered an address before the alumni asso- ciation of his school in 1891, on the Aborigines of Alabama, and in this address made a strong plea for a school history of the state. This address was highly spoken of by the critics of the day. After graduating he taught at Roanoke during the years 1880 and 1881. He then went to Vanderbilt university, where he graduated in the spring of 1883 in the medical department of that institution. He then secured the appointment of assistant to the chair of chemistry in that institution, and remained there a short time. His father's illness called him home, and for some time he managed his father's mercantile business, and at the same time practiced his profession. In 1888 Dr. Blake moved to Lineville, Ala., where he still lives. He was married July 26, 1885, at Roanoke, Ala., to Mattie L. Shaffer, daughter of Dr. J. P. Shaffer of Dadeville, Ala., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. By this marriage he has three children, viz. : John, Jephtha H. and Margaret E. Politically Dr. Blake is a democrat, and is the Clay county member of the democratic executive committee of the fifth congressional district of Alabama. He is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity of the state medical association, being a coun- selor in that body of the Clay county medical society, and he is one of the censors for the county. He graduated with the degree of bachelor of science at the A. & M. college of Ala., and with the degree of doctor of medicine at Vanderbilt university. He is an excellent physician and a man of considerable merit in literary matters. His address before the alumni association of his college in 1891 has already been referred to. The fol- lowing extracts from that address are here introduced: "I have recently examined a number of the popular school histories in use throughout our country, and I find that the greatest space devoted to a history of our own state in any of the books examined is ten lines." "Should our chil- dren be taught of Salem witchcraft, the Acadians in Nova Scotia, the Pequod war, or the prosecution of the Quakers, to the neglect of the history of our own state? I think not. Our children are taught of the adventures of John Smith in Virginia, but are told nothing of the equally romantic life of Samuel Dale of Alabama." They read of the patriotic. eloquence of Patrick Henry, but know nothing of the equally eloquent, and no less patriotic appeals of William Lowdnes Yancey. What citizen of Alabama does not feel a keener sense of state pride when he remembers that William Rufus King, Jabez L. M. Curry and J. Marion Sims, together with scores of others whose names would honor the pages of a nation's. history, were Alabamians either by birth or adoption? Is it justice to these men whose lives have given character to our state to allow their names to be forgotten? What is more cruel than neglect? And in addi- tion to the crime of ingratitude we are losing the greatest possible influ- ence known in developing in our youth a feeling of state pride, that ele- ment so essentially important to a higher order of citizenship. An indi-
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vidual without personal or family pride, a professional man without pro- fessional pride, or citizen without state pride is an inferior product of his kind, and can we expect to develop a feeling of state pride among our youth when they are ignorant of the history of our state?"
R. D. EVANS, dentist of Lineville, Ala., is a son of William and Susan (Knowles) Evans. William Evans was born in Newton county, Ga., and was reared in that and Harrison counties. Ga. He was married in Harri- son county and lived there until 1847, when he removed to Alabama, locat- ing in Elmore county. After the war he removed to Coosa county, near Rockford, and died there in 1868. His widow died in 1887. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are now living. The father of William Evans was David Evans, who was reared in Georgia. The father of David Evans came from England, but was a native of Wales. Mrs. Susan Evans was a daughter of Daniel Knowles, an Irishman. R. D. Evans was born January 6, 1838 in Newton county, Georgia, and was brought to Alabama by his father when eleven years old. He received but an ordinary literary education, was married in 1861, in Coosa county, to Amanda C. Parish, by whom he had two children, M. C., deceased, and Claude L., single. He was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1868, and preached for ten years. He then studied dentistry and has since been engaged in that profession. During the war he performed service in the mechanical department,. In 1892, he was elected by the people's party, a member of the legislature, belonging, of course, to that party. He is a royal arch Mason and has held all the offices in Masonry. He is now high priest of the chapter, and is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a genial gentleman and is highly popular with the people of his county.
L. B. GIBSON, a farmer and merchant of Gibsonville, Ala., is a son of Col. L. A. and Rebecca (Sample) Gibson. Abel Gibson, the father of Col. L. A. Gibson, lived in Fairfield district, S. C., until 1834 when he moved with his family to Troup county, Ga., settling near La Grange, where he lived until his death. His son, Col. L. A. Gibson, was born July 3, 1820, and was consequently fourteen years old when he was taken to Troup county, Ga. He grew to manhood and married in that county, his marriage occurring October 23, 1845. In 1850 he came to Alabama and settled in the southern part of Talladega county (now Clay county), in what is now known as the Bluff Spring neighborhood. He lived there until 1870, when he moved to and settled on the place upon which Mr. L. B. Gibson now lives. Here he died January 13, 1888. He was a farmer and a merchant and was industrious, energetic and thrifty. He accumulated considerable property and represented the county in the legislature in 1876, having been nominated and elected without any effort on his part. He was a man of strong religious convictions, and a deacon of and an active member of the Missionary Baptist church. He was also a Mason. He reared a family of eleven children, seven of them to maturity, and five of whom
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still survive, viz .: Annie, single and living at home; Sarah, wife of Dr. J. L. Simpson, of Anniston, Ala. ; L. B .; Lauritis, wife of E. J. Smith, merchant of Sylacauga, Ala. ; Joseph A,. a physician of Olive, Texas. The mother of these children is still living on the old homestead with L. B. Gibson. Both the Gibsons and the Samples are of Irish decent. Mr. L. B. Gibson was born April 1st, 1863, in Tallapoosa county, Ala. He received a liberal education, and at twenty-one years of age, bought his father's interest in the store he was then managing and has since con- ducted it. He was married October 7, 1890, at Lineville, Clay county, Ala .. to Miss Mittie Nichols, of an old and highly respected family. Politically Mr. Gibson is a democrat and he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He and his family have always been highly esteemed by the community in which they have lived. To show the estimation in which Col. L. A. Gibson was held at the time of his death, the following short obituary notice, taken from the Clay County Watchman, of February 17, 1888, is here introduced. "Thus to the grief of all has passed away one of the best, truest and noblest of men. No eulogy can enter the still, cold ear of death; but we would fain say something in praise of one who so quietly and unostentatiously shed an influence for good over every life he touched. As a husband he was faithful and true; as a father, devoted and tender; as a friend upright and stanch, and as a Christain, conscientious and truthful." The first child born to L. A. and R. E. Gibson was Mattie Elizabeth, a woman of superior mental endowments who was married to Mr. J. R. Gilbert, a merchant of Pinckneyville, Ala., in 1866. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive her: Minnie wife of Dr. A. L. Harlan of Alexander city, Ala. Cora wife Prof. J. M. Leverette of Waverly. Ala. : Annie wife of J. R. Irvin, a merchant of Miller- ville, Ala; Albert E. who is still with his father; Georgia B., wife of Byron Bryant of Reagan, Texas; Pearl, single and still at home.
W. M. LACKEY, lawyer of Ashland, Ala., is a son of James M. and Elizabeth (Wiley) Lackey. Adam Lackey, the father of James M. Lackey, emigrated from South Carolina to Tennessee when a young man, and settled near the Alabama line. He married and moved to Tallapoosa county, Ala., in 1835 and there reared his family. In 1866 he moved to Jackson county, and thence to DeKalb county, where he died in 1891. James M. Lackey was reared in Tallapoosa county, married in Talladega county, and returned to Tallapoosa county, but soon moved to what was then Talla- dega, now Clay county. Here he enlisted in Hilliard's legion and served about a year, when he contracted a fever and died in a hospital at Chatta- nooga, Tenn. The family consisted of but one child, W. M. The mother after- ward married Judge Hiram M. Evans of Clay county, whose memoir appears elsewhere in this work. W. M. Lackey was born March 31, 1856, in Tallapoosa county, Ala. His literary education was received at Lineville, Clay county. He began the study of law under W. J. Pierce, and in 1880 graduated from the university of Alabama in the law department. He
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has been practicing in Alabama since that time. In 1890 he was elected to the senate from the eighth senatorial district, composed of Talladega and Clay counties, and is now serving in that position. Politically Mr. Lackey is a democrat, and is a leading lawyer and politician.
THOMAS NORTHEN, M. D .- Dr. Thomas Northen, a practicing physi- cian, of Ashland, Ala., was born in Chambers county, Ala., on the 17th day of February, 1845. His father, William S. Northen, was born in Georgia, emigrated to Alabama and settled in Chambers county, about 1840. About 1842, he was married to Mrs. Vicy Anne Bunch (née Wilson), from which union were born six children, viz .: Amanda C., deceased; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; Margaret A., deceased; Sarah E., who was married to Samuel E. Whitlow, and now resides at Bartlett, Texas; Ephraim D., deceased, and George W., now of Holland, Texas. When William S. Northen first came to Alabama, he was engaged in farm- ing. Later, he became interested in the mercantile business, in which he was finally unsuccessful, losing almost his entire fortune. He afterward became the victim of disease and died on the 29th of May, 1855. From this time, Thomas assisted in the care and support of the family, and was thus deprived almost entirely of the privileges of attending school. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Confederate army, joining company I, Thirty-seventh Ala. His first service was under General Price, in Mississippi. He participated in the battles of Iuka and Corinth and the siege of Vicksburg. He was surrendered at Vicksburg and returned home, remaining until the Vicksburg prisoners were exchanged. He then joined his command at Demopolis, Ala., and was there selected as one of the color guards of his regiment. His command was soon ordered to Chattanooga, and he was present in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. On Missionary Ridge he received a. wound in the right hand, which disabled him for active service in the field. In May, following, he was retired from active service for six months. This gave him an opportunity to attend school, of which he availed himself. At the expiration of this time, he rejoined the army at Mobile and was assigned to duty in the commissary department of Baker's brigade. He went with this command to North Carolina and was present at the surreuder of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Greensboro. He then returned home and attended school for a short time, after which he began to teach. He soon became prominent as a teacher, and his services were solicited by the leading schools of the section at that time. After ten years, he abandoned teaching and began the study of medicine under Dr. M. J. Eley, of LaFayette, Ala. He graduated with distinction from the Atlanta medical college, in February, 1878. He moved from his home in Chambers county, to Lineville, Clay county, Ala., where he soon built up an extensive and profitable practice. He remained here ten years, after which he moved with his family to Oxford, Ala. In 1889, he returned to Clay county and settled at Ashland, where he still practices with devotion
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his profession. Dr. Northen was married on December 13, 1866, to Miss Josephine C. Wilson, who became the mother of ten children, viz. : Charles S., a physician of Ashland; Arthur A., a druggist; Cora; Ola; Cressie W .; Eva, deceased; William L .; Vicy A. O .; Allen G. Thurman and Pattie, deceased. The mother of these children died on the 29th of July, 1891. Politically, Dr. Northen is a democrat, is a master Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a member of the state medical association, and was at one time one of the counsel- ors of the association. He is president of the Clay county Medical society, and health officer for the county.
S. W. OWENS, M. D., a physician of Bluff Springs, Ala., is a son of Sebron W. and Nancy L. (Tate) Owens. The father of Sebron W. Owens came to this country from Wales when a young man, was a school teacher by profession, married and reared his family in Wilkes county, Ga. Sebron W. Owens was born in that county, was a mechanic by trade, and died in Wilkes county, in 1855, when Dr. S. W. Owens was one year old. His mother married again, the second time to Sebron Jones. Dr. Owens was the only child by the first marriage, but by her second marriage his mother had two children, Alice T., now the wife of Dr. A. J. Nolen, of New Site, Ala., and Robert O., a physician at Fish Pond, Ala. Dr. S. W. Owens was born April 11, 1853, in Danburg, Wilkes county, Ga. He was reared on a farm in the eastern part of Coosa county, Ala., and his early edu- cation was received at the country schools. At the age of eighteen he went to Texas, and lived five years in Smith county, working on a farm. In 1875, when in Texas, he began reading medicine with a cousin, Dr. H. L. Tate, and after reading medicine there a year he moved back again to Coosa county, and there continued the study of medicine with Dr. A. J. Nolen. In 1882-3 he took lectures at Louisville Medical college, and in the following year he passed an examination under the examining board of Clay county. He has been practicing medicine since 1883 in the im- mediate vicinity of his home. He was married January 22, 1880, in Coosa county, to Eliza T. Nolen, daughter of Hon. R. S. Nolen, of Coosa county, by whom he has six children, viz .: Arthur Hazelton, Sebron Jackson, Estin Talula, Robert Battey, Victoria Bell, Darsey Nolan. Politically, Dr. Owens is a democrat. He is a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and he is steward of his church. He is a member of the State Medical association, and is vice-president of the Clay County Medical society. Besides his professional practice the doc- tor is interested in real estate and farming lands, and has a farm of 120 acres. He is an excellent physician and a genial gentleman, lives in a fine home at Bluff Springs, and is very popular with all classes of people.
E. A. PHILLIPS, probate judge of Clay county, is a son of John B. and Martha J. (Avery) Phillips. The Phillips family came originally from Vir- ginia, but removed to Georgia at a very early date. Both the grandfather
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and great-grandfather were Georgians. The grandfather, Edmund Phillips, reared his family in Newton county, Ga., with the exception of the years 1856-7, when he lived in Monroe county, Mississippi. John B. Phillips was reared in Newton county, Ga., with the exception of two years in Mississippi, and lived there until 1868, when he removed to Clay county, Ala. He served in the late war in company B, Fifty-third Georgia infan- try, and was in Cobb's Legion and Longstreet's corps during the entire war. He now lives two miles east of Ashland, Ala. He reared a family of five children. E. A. Phillips, the eldest son, was born November 9, 1859, in Newton county, Ga. He was married November 13, 1884, in Clay county, to Martha E. Blackstocks, and has only one child living, John La Fayette, who was born in Ashland, Ala., September 17, 1892. He was educated in the common schools, and then taught school four years. In 1886 he was elected circuit court clerk and served one term of six years, or until 1892, when he was elected by the populists probate judge of Clay county. He is very enthusiastic in the new movement, and was a dele- gate to the first populist convention ever held in Alabama, which was held in Birmingham in June, 1892, where he was chosen a delegate to the National convention at Omaha, Neb. He was an excellent circuit court clerk, and it is confidently anticipated of him that he will be at least equal in the performance of his duties as probate judge. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church, and is highly esteemed by all.
J. W. ROZELL, planter of Hatchet Creek, Ala., is a son of Enoch and Mary (Sawyer) Rozell. Enoch Rozell was a native of North Carolina. and was brought to Madison county, Ala., about 1820, by his parents. He arrived at mature years in that county, married and had one child by his first wife, but both mother and child died. He then married Miss Mary Sawyer, at Mardisville, Talladega county, Ala. in 1837, and lived there a short time, when he removed to the neighborhood where his son, J. W. Rozell, now lives. The second wife died in 1866, but the father still lives. He married again some time afterward, Margaret Monroe, who also still survives. By his second wife he had nine children, six of whom now live, viz .: J. W., of Clay county; Samuel and Ashley, both of Clay county ; Mary, wife of E. C. Thompson of Clay county; Frank W. and Drewry. William Rozell, the father of Enoch and Solomon Rozell, the brother of William, were orphan boys and removed to North Carolina from Maryland. Solomon afterward removed to Tennessee, where he became quite wealthy and prominent. The Sawyer family came from Edgefield, S. C., and settled in the Cahawba valley in Alabama. J. W. Rozell was born at Mardisville, July 9, 1838. In 1861 he enlisted in company D, First Alabama heavy artillery, as a private soldier. This was the first company mustered into the service of the Confederate States. His first years' service was at Pensacola, Fla .. and he went thence to Island No. 10., where he was captured and remained prisoner about nine months at Camp Butler, Ill. He was then exchanged and rejoined his
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company at Vicksburg. A short time afterward he was again captured. at Port Hudson. He was here paroled and after three months was ex- changed. He again entered the army and was stationed at Mobile several months, and went thence to Dauphin Island. When Atlanta was threatened by Gen. Sherman, he was ordered to support Gen. Johnston and reached that general in time to participate in the battle of New Hope church. He was in all the rest of the battles before Atlanta fell, and then he went back to Tennessee with Hood. He was not in the battle of Franklin, and was too sick to take part in the battle of Nashville, or of any subsequent important battles. He was at Hamburg, S. C. when the final surrender was made. He returned home from the army and lived for three years within seven miles of Talladega. He then removed to where he now lives. This is eight miles north of Good Water, Ala. Here he has two hundred and fifty-five acres of good farming lands and has his own cot- ton gin upon it. He was married in 1866, Jannary 3, to Elizabeth C. Chandler, of an old Alabama family, by whom he has had seven children, viz. : Mollie, wife of Sebron Pearson, of Hackneyville, Ala .; Albert, living at home; Drury, Edward, Marvin, John and Annis, the last two deceased. Politically Mr. Rozell is a democrat and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a steward of his church. Mr. Rozell is a very active and prosperous farmer, gives attention to party politics and is always alive to whatever tends to benefit the community.
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